John Wayles
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| Wayles died on 28 May 1773, leaving substantial property and debt which took years for Thomas Jefferson and the other co-executors of Wayles' estate to deal with. The majority of Wayles' papers and financial records do not survive. | Wayles died on 28 May 1773, leaving substantial property and debt which took years for Thomas Jefferson and the other co-executors of Wayles' estate to deal with. The majority of Wayles' papers and financial records do not survive. | ||
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John Wayles was Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson's father, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law. He was born in Lancaster, England, on 31 January 1715.[1] His home was The Forest, in Charles City County. He married Martha Eppes on 3 May 1746; they had one surviving child, Martha. Martha Eppes Wayles died on 5 November 1748, shortly after her daughter was born. Wayles later married "Miss Cocke," according to Thomas Jefferson's memorandum. They had three surviving children: Elizabeth, Tabitha, and Anne. Wayles' second wife died and he was married a third time in January 1760 to Elizabeth Lomax. She died just a year later; they had no children.
According to family tradition, John Wayles was also the father of Robert, James, Peter, Critta, Sally, and Thenia Hemings.[2]
Wayles died on 28 May 1773, leaving substantial property and debt which took years for Thomas Jefferson and the other co-executors of Wayles' estate to deal with. The majority of Wayles' papers and financial records do not survive.
Footnotes
- ↑ Memorandum by Thomas Jefferson, Edgehill-Randolph Papers, University of Virginia.
- ↑ Madison Hemings, "Life Among the Lowly," Pike County Republican, March 13, 1873.
See Also
Further Sources
- Goochland County Deed Book 10:169-170, 12:217-219,
- Hemphill, John M., II, ed. "John Wayles Rates His Neighbors." VMHB 66(3):302-306.
- Hochman, Steven Harold. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3515 "Thomas Jefferson: A Personal Financial Biography." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1987.
- John Wayles Will and Codicil, Charles City County Deeds and Wills, 1766-1774, pp. 461-463.
- MB 329-333.
- PTJ 1:95-6, 100, 103.
- "Will of John Wayles." Tyler's Quarterly Magazine 6(3):268-270.
- Thomas Jefferson's accounts with John Wayles. (location?)
- Malone, Jefferson, 1:432-433 (Appendix 1D, "The Wayles Family").
